The Beginners Guide to Creating Realistic Graphics (In Unity)
00:00 Intro
01:11 Overview of Realistic Graphics
02:02 MODELING-----------
02:32 level of detail
03:11 what program should I use?
03:22 MATERIALS----------
04:45 getting materials
05:32 online to unity
07:32 making materials
07:57 optimization techniques
09:13 trimsheets
10:16 channel packing
12:38 LIGHTING----------
13:04 render pipelines
14:39 light rays
15:29 how games handle lights
16:46 baked lighting
17:45 mixed lighting
18:44 reflection probes
19:05 realtime GI
19:38 comparing lighting strategies
20:24 Future of Graphics
------------ 1. MODELING
1-1 Getting Started
★ The Donut Tutorial (For total beginners): • Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1
★ • GAME ASSET BEGINNER TUTORIAL - Blender to ...
★ Paid Blender Tutorial (I took this and loved it): https://www.cgboost.com/courses/robot...
1-2 Level of detail
○ Level of Detail overview: • MAKE YOUR GAME RUN SMOOTH - Unity LOD Tuto...
★ Making an LOD asset for Unity: • GAME ASSET BEGINNER TUTORIAL - Creating LO...
○ LOD Tool (Paid): https://www.simplygon.com/
○ LOD Unity Tutorial: https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/work...
1-3 What program should I use?
○ https://www.blender.org/download/
------------ 2. MATERIALS
2-1 Texture Properties
○ Materials overview: • Materials in Unity (for Beginners)
2-2 Getting materials
○ Free Online options:
○ https://ambientcg.com/
○ https://freepbr.com/
○ https://www.cgbookcase.com/
○ https://polyhaven.com/
2-3 Online to unity
○ Node Wrangler: • How to Use the Node Wrangler for Beginners...
○ Simple bake: https://blendermarket.com/products/si...
○ Channel Packer pro (lets you move materials online directly into unity): https://assetstore.unity.com/packages...
2-4 Making materials
○ Other Options:
○ https://www.adobe.com/products/substa...
○ https://www.fab.com/channels/unity
○ https://marmoset.co/
○ https://armorpaint.org/
○ Materialize: https://www.boundingboxsoftware.com/m...
2-5 Optimization Techniques
★ Unity Tunnel Sample - https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/crea...
2-6 Trimsheets
○ Short overview: • What are Trim Sheets?
○ Long overview: • Trim Sheets: A Complete Tutorial
○ Vuk Bakonovic: https://www.artstation.com/vukbanovic
2-7 Channel Packing
○ • What Is Channel Packing? | Channel Packing...
------------ 3. LIGHTING
3-1 Lighting Intro
○ Good Beginner Tutorial - https://learn.unity.com/mission/creat...
○ Overview of Lighting - • LIGHTING in Unity
○ Technical Overview of Graphics - • How do Video Game Graphics Work?
3-2 Rendering pipelines
○ Choosing a pipeline: • What are the Unity render pipelines and wh...
○ Comparison chart documentation - https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.2/Docum...
3-3 Light rays
○ Unity's Documentation (A dense read, but covers everything)- https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Light...
3-4 How Games Handle Light
○ Helpful Documentation -https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Light...
★ Unity GDC talk (I found this talk to be the most in depth, and the most helpful) - • Harnessing Light with URP and the GPU Ligh... )
3-5 Baked lighting
★ Detailed breakdown of settings - • Basics of Lightmapping in Unity 2020.1
○ Super Short Tutorial Showing how to Bake - • Light Your World in Unity - 1 Minute Tutorial
○ Detailed Tutorial Showing how to Bake - • How to build Lightmaps in Unity 2020.1 | T...
○ Documentation (Dense, but very helpful) - https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Light...
3-6 Mixed Lighting
○ Covers a ton of lighting topics - • Lighting tutorial: 4 techniques to light e...
○ Overview of Light probes - • HIGH QUALITY LIGHTING using Light Probes -...
○ Detailed breakdown of Unity's new LightProbe system - • Efficient and impactful lighting with Adap... -
3-7 Reflection probes
○ • REFLECTION PROBES in Unity 2019.1! | Begin...
3-8 Realtime GI
○ Optimizing lighting for Realtimg GI -https://learn.unity.com/project/light...
3-9 Comparing Lighting strategies
○ Comparison chart - • Lighting tutorial: 4 techniques to light e...
Future of Graphics
○ Set up RayTracing - • Activate ray tracing with Unity's High Def...
○ Test out PathTracing - • Activate ray tracing with Unity's High Def...
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